Bug 13871

Summary:	[feature request] grep switches for excluding binary files or certain file extensions
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	Vadim Kantorov <vadimkantorov>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Vadim Kantorov 2021-06-27 09:55:42 UTC

These are useful for recursive grepping to avoid (slow and useless) printing spurious matches in binary files (such as images).

OpenBSD grep supports "-I" to ignore binary files: https://man.openbsd.org/grep.1

FreeBSD grep supports both "-I" and "--exclude": https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=grep&sektion=&n=1